Oil Dealer, Female Accomplice In Prison Over N3.6m Fraud

PAUL IYOGHOJIE

A self-acclaimed oil dealer, Christopher Ayodele has been arraigned before a Lagos Magistrate Court for allegedly obtaining the sum of N3,658,546 from one Alhaji Abdulazeez Tijani with the promise to supply him black oil but instead they allegedly converted the  money to their personal use.

Also charged with Ayodele for the same alleged crime was one Mrs Omotolani Tokunbo, 42, who was said to have connived with him,

Ayodele, a resident of Odongunyan area of Ikorodu, Lagos and Tokunbo were arrested by the operatives of the Force Intelligence Department, Force Headquarters, Lagos and charged before an Igbosere Magistrate Court, Lagos on a three count charge of felony to wit. obtaining money under false pretence and stealing.

Police Counsel Insp. Abass Abayomi told the Court that the accused persons committed the offence in April 2017 at Ijesha area of Surulere,Lagos.

Abayomi said that the accused persons collected the said sum from the complainant with a promise to supply him black oil but instead they converted the money to their use and escaped before they were arrested at their hideout.

He said that the offences the accused persons committed were punishable under sections 409,312 and 285(1) of the criminal Laws of Lagos State,2011.

The accused however pleaded not guilty to the alleged crime in the open Court and Chief Magistrate A.O Komolafe granted them bail in the sum of N500,000 each with two sureties each in like sum.
Komolafe adjourned the case till 5 February 2018 for mention and ordered that the defendants be remanded at the Ikoyi and Kirikiri Prisons, Lagos till they fulfill the bail conditions.